The Washington critic., 1887-04-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

'hc hbIi STEAMER Tlnlhnu mas IOUnuefeu.
The Virginia Legislature reassembled
yesterday.
John E. Ames, leading citizen OF Aceo-
mac County, Va, is dead.
Philip Lacmmert was shot and killed In a
saloon at Frostburg last night.
Captain Robert speddcn OF Dorchester
County is dead, aged 81 years.
There is renewal OF trouble between
Lord Lansdowne and his tenants.
The Salvation Army at Frederick will
erect building in which to worship.
A lodge Of the Ancient Order OF United
Wofkmen has been organized at Elkton.
Judge William +. Wright OF Georgia died
suddenly In st. Mary's County, Nd, yester-
day.
1t is stated that Germany may release
NJ. schDaebelcs In Difference to French feel
ing.
The Swiss Council has ratified the lit.
erary copyright convention with the United
States.
British customs officers have been ordered
to search incoming American vessels for
explosives.
The ecclesiastical bill was ordered to the
third reading In the lower house Of the
Prussian Diet yesterday.
The certificate OF incorporation Of the Bal
been filed at Annapolis.
The Delaware Conference NJ, L. Church,
colored, Will meet In annual session at
Chestertown, Nd, to-day.
Assistant Engineer Frank ]. Schell, u. s.
Navy, was married In Richmond last night
to Miss Gay Warren Miller.
The body OF Captain John W. Budd OF
the wrecked schooner MAR and Cranmer
has been washed ashore near Fishermans
Inlet.
Mr.. Gladstone, in speech to the labor
members Of Parliament last night, defended
Mr.. Parneil against the accusations of the
Times.
The estate known as "The Plains,n In
Caroline County, Nd, has been purchased
by the Benedictine Sisters for nunnery and
academy.
Hon. James NJ. Casey, ex-member OF the
Legislature from the Fifth Lackawanna dis
uict, died yesterday Of pneumonia in
Gouldsboro', Pa.
The sale Of the Chicago Illinois and
Eastern Road to the Chicago aud North
western was consummated at St. Paul,
MIMI, Tuesday.
construction Of the Arthur XIII bridge was
decided adversely, in New York yesterday,
to the plaintiff.
A resolution was introduced In the West
Virginia Senate yesterday providing for the
| settlement Of the claim of Virginia against
West Virginia for SS,0O0,OO0.
In the Florida Legislature, yesterday, the
| vote for United States Senator was: Blox-
BAN, 10; Perry, 90: Pasco, IL; scattering,
12; Goodrich, Republican, 10.
| :, A freight train was wrecked on the Valley
Railroad, near Timberville, Va, yesterday;
William Cooley, brakeman, was killed,
and Edward Russell, conductor, badly
hurt.
AT Hagerstown Emanuel Cump, suspected
| OF the shooting Of his mother and brother,
waived an examination yesterday and will
remain In jail to await the action OF the
| grand jury.
Nineteen OF the men on guard at the dis
puted right OF way on the Cookery farm
were arrested yesterday, charged with tear
| ingu the rails Of the Piedmont and Cum
berland Railroad.
| AT Coldwater, Mich, Tuesday, Thomas
johnson Of Knoxville, Tenn, mortally
wounded George W. Gardner and slightly
wounded Mrs. Gardner, his former wife,
and then killed himself.
Frank Mullen was received at Sing Sing
| Prison, New York, April 8, to serve out a
sentence Of ten years for an assault In the
first degree. Yesterday he was found dead
In his cell hanging by the neck.
The bugeye Blanch Hayward, OF Solo
mems Island, was capsized In the Chesa-
peake Bay, off Cedar Point Monday night,
and three sons OF George w. Hayward OF
Solomon's Island were drowned.
Jonathan W. Gordon, the most prominent
criminal attorney in Indiana, died in Indian
apolis yesterday. lie had defended over
sixty murder cases Ia his career, only one
Of which was decided against him.
| ta al trr L.,
dictcd forty.four more of the Bald-Knob-
bers, and IL is said seventy.Gve In all will be
indicted. The indictments are for whip
| ping, intimidation and other similar Of
lenses.
Frederick stoll, a young baker, has been
arrested in Cleveland charged with the
murder of Maggie Mccarthy, who was
found murdered in that city Sunday. His
| face is scratched and there was blood on
his clothing when arrested.
| The executive council OF Window Glass
| Workers National Assembly, No. 300
Knights OF Labor, has requested Isaac Cline
to resign the office OF president Of the as
| sembly, on the ground that he has neglected
his duties and proved incompetent.
| A resident of West Philadelphia yester-
day discovered among lot OF rubbish near
the Geological Gardens large bundle con-
tanning the dead bodies OF three infants, one
| III etutc VI puItlui uCCuilpOelliOn. lut
others apparently had not been dead more
than day at the most.
| The dead body OF young woman, in q
nearly nude condition, was found Tuesday
in field near Thompson's mill, about five
miles from Dubuque, la. 1t was discovered
that the dead woman was the wife of Ber-
nard Kennedy, dairy keeper, living near
the scene Of the tragedy.
Charles Pulasky fell down shaft No. ! Of
the new aqueduct at New York yesterday
and was instantly killed. Antonio Percaci,
an Italian, aged 55, was killed at the gate
house of the new aQueduct by rock
weighing ton falling on him.
Among the passengers on the steamer
San Pablo, which sailed from San Francisco
Tuesday for Hong Kong, were Count Eu.
gene Mitkiewiez of Washington, s. A.
lIern, capitalist, OF Philadelphia, and L. 4.
Barberie of New York. They represent the
syndicate to which the Chinese Govern
ment has granted the exclusive privilege
Of using the Turnbull telephone In China
for thirty years.
At meeting Of the general passenger and
ticket agents Of the lines In the Western
States Passenger Association IN Chicago,
yesterday, II was agreed to adopt the differ
ential fares now IN effect over such Eastern
lines as the Western lines, basing rates from
May /, in making through fares to the East,
from the territory west Of Chicago, st.
Louls, Peoria, Bloomington, etc.
|
| 1t has been found that n lobster produces
i2,CC0 young per year. The man who sup
| ms pl ihat n lnhstpr had nothinp In do Inn